Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification explained

The qualification for the 2020 Women's Olympic Handball Tournament assigned quota places to twelve teams: the hosts, the World champion, four continental champions and six teams from the World Olympic qualification tournaments respectively.

Qualification summary

width=30%	Qualification!	width=23%	Date!	width=22%	Host!	width=10%	Vacancies!	width=15%	Qualified
Host nation			1
	29 November – 16 December 2018		1
	24–30 July 2019		1
	23–29 September 2019		1
	26–29 September 2019		1
	29 November – 15 December 2019		1
	19–21 March 2021		2
			2
			2
Total			12

Legend for qualification type

Legend for qualification type
Team qualified from the World Championship directly to the 2020 Olympic Tournament
Team qualified from Continental Events or as hosts directly to the 2020 Olympic Tournament
Team qualified from the World Championship to the Olympic Qualification Tournaments
Team qualified from Continental Events to the Olympic Qualification Tournaments

World Championship

See main article: article and 2019 World Women's Handball Championship.

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19
20
21
22
23
24

Continental qualification

Europe

See main article: 2018 European Women's Handball Championship.

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America

See main article: article and Handball at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's tournament.

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8

Asia

The tournament was held in Chuzhou, China from 23 to 29 September 2019.^[1]

All times are local (UTC+8).

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Africa

The tournament was held in Dakar, Senegal from 26 to 29 September 2019.^[2]

All times are local (UTC+0).

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Olympic Qualification Tournaments

See main article: 2020 IHF Women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

2020 Olympic Qualification Tournament #3

Notes and References

Web site: Asian Women's Qualification for OG Japan 2020 – Result Summary. AHF. 29 September 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191026192607/http://asianhandball.org/images/results/AWQ2019-CHN/ResultSummary.pdf. 26 October 2019. 11 December 2019.
Web site: Tournoi qualificatif des Jeux Olympiques. Olympic Qualification Tournament. CAHB. 27 September 2019. 27 September 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190927104344/http://cahbonline.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/70318989_2255748288070405_7721382180571578368_n-1-610x610.jpg. dead.